The Campbeltown Malts Competition is going on this week, so I believed I ought to get my act collectively and eventually assessment this pageant bottling from final 12 months that’s been looking at me on the shelf ever since I returned from my Scotland escapades late final summer time. As soon as a booming heart of whisky manufacturing, Campbeltown is now the smallest Scotch whisky area with solely three working distilleries, certainly one of which, Glen Scotia, is the producer of this distinctive single malt. This younger whisky is produced from closely peated malt matured for seven and a half years in 100% first-fill bourbon barrels earlier than a ultimate 12-month end in Pedro Ximenez hogsheads. With out additional ado.
The aroma is at first fairly recent with notes of baked apples, dried mango, and toasted malts. The fruit notes begin to take issues in a sweeter path, however the peat, whereas not precisely heavy, reins that in with struck matchheads and pickle brine. Because it opens additional an earthy element develops with pencil shavings and moist clay. The Pedro Ximenez doesn’t make itself simply recognized, revealing refined baking cocoa and low beans however solely after a couple of minutes within the glass. It’s fairly a layered and various aroma for a youthful single malt. On the palate, it is a daring, honeyed whisky, approachable even at a beneficiant proof with an oily and virtually chewy physique. Notes of mango, grilled fish, damp tobacco, and lemon marmalade on burnt toast supply up a dynamic profile that’s candy, savory, and a contact bitter with a lacing of bonfire smoke all through. It’s rather a lot to course of however well worth the contemplation. The end is lengthy and clinging with barely bitter goats milk caramels (sea salted, after all), grilled pineapple, and smoked fish. As pageant bottlings go, it is a actual discount.
113 proof.
A- / $80 / glenscotia.com
Glen Scotia “Malts Competition 2022” 8 Years Outdated
$70
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